'Significance' definitions:
Definition of 'significance'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of being significant; "do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power" [ant: insignificance]
noun
A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred; "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication" [syn: significance, import, implication]
noun
The message that is intended or expressed or signified; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambiguous" [syn: meaning, significance, signification, import]
Definition of 'Significance'
From: GCIDE
- Significance \Sig*nif"i*cance\, Significancy \Sig*nif"i*can*cy\, n. [L. significantia.]
- 1. The quality or state of being significant. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is signified; meaning; import; as, the significance of a nod, of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Importance; moment; weight; consequence. [1913 Webster]
- With this brain I must work, in order to give significancy and value to the few facts which I possess. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'significance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accent,
- acceptation,
- affective meaning,
- authority,
- balefulness,
- banefulness,
- bearing,
- bodefulness,
- coloring,
- concern,
- concernment,
- connotation,
- consequence,
- consequentiality,
- consideration,
- conspicuousness,
- content,
- credit,
- denotation,
- direness,
- distinction,
- doomfulness,
- drift,
- effect,
- elevation,
- eminence,
- emphasis,
- essence,
- exaltation,
- excellence,
- expressiveness,
- extension,
- fatality,
- fatefulness,
- force,
- gist,
- grammatical meaning,
- grandeur,
- greatness,
- high mightiness,
- high order,
- high rank,
- idea,
- impact,
- implication,
- import,
- importance,
- impression,
- influence,
- intelligibility,
- intendment,
- intension,
- interest,
- interpretability,
- lexical meaning,
- literal meaning,
- loftiness,
- magnitude,
- mark,
- materiality,
- meaning,
- meaningfulness,
- meatiness,
- merit,
- message,
- moment,
- momentousness,
- nobility,
- notability,
- note,
- ominousness,
- outstandingness,
- overtone,
- paramountcy,
- perfection,
- pertinence,
- pith,
- pithiness,
- point,
- portent,
- portentousness,
- practical consequence,
- precedence,
- preeminence,
- pregnancy,
- presagefulness,
- prestige,
- primacy,
- priority,
- prominence,
- purport,
- range of meaning,
- readability,
- real meaning,
- reference,
- referent,
- relation,
- relevance,
- scope,
- self-importance,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- sense,
- sententiousness,
- significancy,
- significantness,
- signification,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- sinisterness,
- span of meaning,
- spirit,
- stress,
- structural meaning,
- sublimity,
- substance,
- suggestiveness,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- supereminence,
- superiority,
- supremacy,
- symbolic meaning,
- tenor,
- totality of associations,
- transferred meaning,
- unadorned meaning,
- understanding,
- undertone,
- value,
- vein,
- virtue,
- weight,
- weightiness,
- worth